Java one of the biggest island in Indonesia with the largest population, have an intresting ancient history to tell. One of the intresting city is Yogyakarta, this city had an ancient story from an ancient architecture, the name is Prambanan, located in the eastern city of Yogyakarta, precisely in Sleman

Prambanan temple is an ancient architectural that already stood over a century, a most beautiful architecture of Hindu all around the world. It’s located in the south of mount Merapi, it has a beautiful scenery because the tample is right next to Opak river wich is it’s upstream from mount Merapi, and when the weather is nice we can see Mount Merapi itself.

prambanan temple area consist of some temple, which is 3 main temple, 3 accompanying temple, 4 wedge temple, and 4 curtain temple, every temple had their own purpose and meaning in the belief of Hindu. Maybe some of us didn’t know, why there’s a biggest Hindu architecture in the island of Java, whereas most of the population is Muslim? . According to the history, Hindu is the first religion that coming to Indonesia. The ancient Javanese culture and Hindu is asimilated so that this building stood until now, the initiator of Prambanan temple is Prabu Rakai Pikatan, the king of Sanjaya dinasty, unfortunately after this building is finish, Mpu sindok the last king of Sanjaya dinasty moved the governmental activities to East Java, so that this building is hit by a natural disasters, distroyed, until finally discovered by the dutch man called as C.A Lons,and he did renovations here and there, until now, one of the proof is recorded into this photo, that is when the main temple [Shiva Temple] was already clean, we can see the Lord Shiva statue was removed from the holder

Because this temple is a Hindu architecture so when we step into this place, we can feel the atmosphere of Hinduism so strong, it’s visible from the style of the architecture that towering above, this kind of style has a meaning according to Hindu, the meaning is taken from the concept of Loka (World), where is the Loka is devided into 3 part, Bhurloka, Bhuvarloka, and Svargaloka, this part is relates to the purpose of the temple, which is the temple is the representation of microcosmos universe. Bhurloka, is the lowest part of the temple and represent the world where human, animal, ghost, and worldly life is live, this part is full of desire, in Buddha this part called as Kamadhatu, Bhuvarloka is the middle world, a place for people who already achieved an enlightenment of life and for the lower Gods, in Buddha this part called as Rupadhatu, the last part is Svargaloka or heaven (Nirvana), a supreme Gods living place, such as Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Brahma, in Buddha this part is called as Arupadhatu.

And for the temple, it’s devided into 3 main temple as an offerings to 3 supreme Gods in Hindu, Shiva Temple, as we can see above, Brahma Temple, and Vishnu Temple. But the main of the main temple is Shiva temple, the most large-sized with 4 room inside of the temple, where every room is facing to the 4 direction of wind appropriately, whereas in the ancient time they didn’t use magnetic compass. Inside Every room is stood 1 statue that related to Lord Shiva, while in the temple of Brahma and Vishnu temple consists of only one room, and stood 1 statue of Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu.

The intresting part is where the east room that contain Lord Shiva Statue, will be exposed to direct sunlight in the morning, as same as the west room that contain Lord Ganesh statue, will be exposed direct sunlight in the afternoon. The 3 statue inside another 3 chamber of Shiva temple had a special relation to Lord Shiva, Durga is shakti or wife of Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesh is Son of Shiva, and Sage Agastya is hermit who is highly respected by the teachings of Hindu.